#my barbies

[madysenpai]

The Pitt - Onion Headlines (1/?) - Oops all Kingdon

(Oops all Kingdon pt.2)

[barbielore]

Today is World Down Syndrome Day, so even though I've previously referenced the two dolls in the Barbie line who are designed with Down Syndrome, I thought I'd bring those up again.

In collaboration with NDSS (National Down Syndrome Society), Mattel have released two dolls in the Fashionistas range who are depicted as having features consistent with Down Syndrome. This includes custom face sculpts to represent some distinctive facial features associated with Down Syndrome.

Apparently the design of the dolls was determined through consultation with NDSS and focus testing; this is how Mattel decided on certain features such as the Black doll wearing glasses, and the blonde doll wearing orthotics. Both dolls are portrayed wearing blue and yellow (colours associated with Down Syndrome) and the blonde doll is wearing a necklace with a triple chevron, representing the duplication of the 21st chromosome.

The reaction to these dolls has been largely positive, from what I have seen; this MamaMia article collects a number of reactions from women with Down Syndrome and mothers of daughters with Down Syndrome being very positive about the design and praising Mattel for allowing girls and women with Down Syndrome to see themselves in Barbie (though it does also note that there should be more racial diversity as well; something that Mattel did seem to take on board for the next release).

I have seen some people be somewhat critical of the fact that the design is very childlike and not particularly fashionable, though I do freely admit that I can't find any current sources for that opinion - I know I did see it in the initial wake of her release. Of course, as a children's toy, being childlike isn't a problem - but Barbie is often an aspirational, adult, fashionable figure, so it would be nice to see some of that reflected in the dolls with disabilities also.

I'm quite attached to these dolls though; in fact, Fashionista 208 is the first Barbie I have bought new in box since I was a child.

I have no idea what to do with her besides what I have been doing so far which is keep her in box. Should I open her up and pose her? Should I wait until I can get a 229 to go with her?

[icras]

i dont want a valentine i just valentinoooo song in da club get marc marquez in there i wanna see what happens

[luminiciant]

they’re barbie

[your-childhood-barbie]

Flying Hero Kira, 1995

(from my personal collection)

[tenderthreats]

i might say sike and bring zae to this blog just to constantly talk about how different they are to ezz,,, ezz who is almost twice her age, who isn't prone to panic after dealing with the unknown for so long, who has more experience being a warden than a regular person, who got to grow up without the world placed on her shoulders

[voydhund]

every day i find another Benchtrio fic where they all kiss is a good day

[alltheprettybarbies]

The cleanup crew tn! Results soon!

[artbyblastweave]

I remember meeting a guy at a bar a year or so ago who told me he worked at the international consortium that does the porn parodies of all the top-grossing film releases. He said that the whole Barbenheimer situation presented his combine with some spectacular highs and lows. Because he said that with Barbie, right, the thing about Barbie is that there's already kind of a three-way ideatic, structural parallel between the curated artificiality of Barbie as a children's toy, the curated artificiality of Barbie as a mass market film, and the curated artificiality of pornography as a genre. Add on top of that that Barbie as a film is already feeling this tension, right where it's trying to be about a character graduating from the platonic sexlessness of a children's franchise to the functional-and-frank sexuality of being a living human woman, but it's also being bogged down in the "Everyone-is-beautiful-no-one-is-horny" aesthetic restrictions of any contemporary big-budget mass-market film so the two states end up looking pretty similar, he said. I mean the film itself is very aware of that tension, right, with that joke about how "casting Margot Robbie is the wrong move if you want to make that point," all that jazz. So, all that in mind, Barbie-themed pornography, he said, is in a weird way actually kind of complementary to the extant project, gesturing at unaddressed tensions and ideas, a dark mirror, the shadow self it wants to deny but can't, there's a lot of room to play in the space. He used the adjective "Lynchian" a couple of times, he seemed super stoked, he was talking with his hands. Oppenheimer, on the other hand. Oppenheimer he said presented a problem. Because obviously you can eroticize the detonation of an atomic bomb, we're all probably three mutuals removed from someone on this site who does exactly that, but obviously that's a niche market, and moreover it's a market that has a ton of overlap with high-minded thinkers who treat the historical use of atomic weapons against Japan with the level of gravity that atrocity demands. So they were stuck. They were really stuck. He told me that they'd been pulling their hair out for months trying to square the circle and all they had to show for it was a big whiteboard with the phrase "Grope-nheimer" written on it

[braxdxew]

“stop calling that man a lesbian” no🤍

[za1ka]

noooooooo Aziraphale don't turn around you won't survive the cunt this diva is serving

[barbielore]

So I went thrifting again! This time it was to a local flea market where I acquired two new Barbies.

They looked really familiar to me but I couldn't quite place them so I was on a hunt. If anyone is curious how I went about this, I.... well, to be honest, I posted on Reddit in r/barbie to ask if anyone knew.

And then I didn't want to wait so I looked at the copyright year for the bodies and the heads. Barbie's face sculpt is from 1998, while Ken's is from 2009, and both bodies are from 2009. The Ken head seemed like the best way to narrow it down and from a site breaking down Ken face sculpts I thought the face sculpt might be Fashionista Cuties Ken.

From there it was looking at different Kens with that face sculpt and searching up one of them to see if the clothes matched led me to the Beach Cruiser Playset.

There they are!

They're in pretty poor shape at the moment, with Barbie missing her shoes and both their hair being in quite a bit of disarray. (Plus Ken's shorts keep falling down because the Velcro is broken.)

Not to mention they are missing their actual Beach Cruiser.

Ken's hair is driving me so crazy that I don't know if I want to restyle it or do a complete rethread. That being said, I say that, but I can't even reliably finish a Barbie skirt.

[jackabbot]

"how can you multiship?" well you see honey, when two people love each other very much and neither of them is real...

[r0semultiverse]

Like music to my ears

[your-childhood-barbie]

Totally Yo-Yo Teen Courtney, 1998

(from my personal collection)

[filiseverus]

The Barbie movie reminded me about how when I was little my parents were upset that I kept making my Barbie dolls kiss, so they bought me a Ken doll. The next day they found me having a funeral for poor Ken in the garden, he had died of tuberculosis. All the Barbies were in attendance and I buried him under our rose bush. The Barbies were too poor to afford a headstone (it was 1875) so I didn’t mark where the grave was and I never could find him again. He’s probably still there.